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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2003
Applicant:
Richard C. Sweeney, Falmouth, ME (US);
Inventor:
Richard C. Sweeney, Falmouth, ME (US);
Assignee:
Pactiv Corporation, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 1/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cupholder for holding containers is provided with a number of container-holding cavities. Each of the container-holding cavities includes pairs of gripping flanges that extend inwardly toward centers of the cavities. The flanges include gripping points that extend toward each other and exert a gripping force along a bottom of an inserted container. The gripping flanges are pliable to accept a variety of inserted container sizes, but resilient enough to exert a container-holding force against containers inserted into the container-holding cavities.